TABLE OF CONTENTS > Lessons & dePARTMenTs
contents (Cont’d)
Volume 17 Issue 4 April 2012
Lessons
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digging deeper
Julian Lage
Beyond Blues
Kid Andersen
Acoustic Adventures
Tony McManus
shred your enthusiasm
Paul Gilbert
Photo by Ben Hosking
21
Opening Notes
60Vintage Vault
Photo by Tim Mullally
coLuMns
gigging & RecoRding
52 Ask Amp Man
Rare Bird—The Sound City
Concord Combo
54 Mod garage
Tele Control Plate Mods
56 The Bass Bench
Bass Mods: When, Where, and Why?
Vin TAge & uPkeeP
58 Bottom Feeder
My Gibson J- 45 Skull Guitar
60 Vintage Vault
1968 Fender Stratocaster and
1969 Kustom K 100 2
62 Trash or Treasure
Gretsch Bikini Bass and Guitar
64 Restoring an original
Resuscitating a Ruined
’ 56 Fender Esquire
dePARTMenTs
opening notes
Letters
news
staff Picks
PG editors and Machine Head’s Robb
Flynn talk about what they listen to
before a gig.
34 Media Reviews
Van Halen: A Different Kind of Truth
Plus: Will Bernard and Guitar Tone
194 new Products
198 gear of the Month
Elvis Presley’s 1975 Martin D- 28
200 Modern Builder Vault
Fibenare Guitars
208 Last call
Tales From a B-Bender Freak
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30
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on The coVeR Sonoma Wire Works Guitar Tone app for iPhone, Esperanza
Spalding (photo by Carlos Pericas, courtesy of Montuno), and BiLT Guitars S.S. Zaftig.
